A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 516 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
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Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2021-08-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3985943893 |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court illustrated Mark Twain - One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose! Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting. While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781357127435 |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1991-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812504364 |
Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2002-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520929418 |
A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain’s most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race." The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks." And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss," he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot—with unexpected results. Daniel Carter Beard illustrated the first edition of Yankee in 1889, and Mark Twain praised his work as "better than the book—which is a good deal for me to say, I reckon." This Mark Twain Library edition reprints the text based on the author’s manuscript, all 221 of Beard’s illustrations, and the notes from the California scholarly edition.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Hank Morgan finds himself transported back to England's Dark Ages -- where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he's quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity -- winning himself the position of prime minister as well as the lasting enmity of Merlin.